Slavery And Southern Methodism Two Sermons Preached in the Methodist Church in
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"What made these old red hills, these sterile old fields? Slavery! Unmindful of the welfare of generations unborn, instead of improving the lands, and increas- ing their productive capacity, the slave power wrench(;d from the soil the last dollar it could yield, to Jjuy another ncgro^ to open another Jield^ to maho more cotton^ to huy still another negro! Xow these old fields remain the only monument of its former ABUSES OF SLAVERY. 39 greatness, the sad memorial of its greed for gold ! Will we... wonder if tlie lauds which we have so great- ly abused should now be wrested from us, to pay the very cost of subduing that power wherein we trusted ? Oi that power we had made an idol. We set it uj), not only above the thrones of the kings and princes of this world, but above tlie very throne of God, to make laws wherewith to bind the consciences of men. 6. This is the power that made the war. Slavery made secession and secession made the war. It sent your husbands, brothers and sons to the battle, and their bones lie bleaching upon a thousand gory fields, fj'om Gettysburgh to the plains of Arizona !
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